190 



Wulfhall and the Seymours. 



He adds, u That this statement was delivered to my Lord Treasurer by Mr. 



Attorney and Mr. Sollioitor under their hands Termino Hillarii, Feb. 1573. 

 At the foot of one of the papers the Earl has written : — 

 ' 1 Note. — This that I seek is but a feather of myne own goose : Whereas if I 



were ambitiously disposed, or to into the world as diverse would have 



done, T should have claimed restitution of the whole once meant me by Q,. Mary 



contrary to me in Religion." 



No. XI. 



The Earl of Hertford's Statement (A.D. 1573) concerning the Fine 

 of £15,000 set upon him in the Star-Chamber, for marrying Lady 

 Katharine Grey. See page 153. 



[The fine originally fixed by the Star-Chamber upon the Earl of Hertford for 

 marrying Lady Katharine Grey was £15,000. Of this the Q,ueen at once re- 

 mitted £10,000 before he was sent to the Tower. Of the remaining £5000, she 

 insisted on receiving £1 187, leaving £3813. Of this, £1000 more was remitted 

 through the interference of Sir Thomas Smith, Secretary of State; bringing it 

 down to £2813. It was at this stage of the affair, the Earl's lands being then 

 under distraint for the amount, that the following letter was written to Secre- 

 tary Walsingham, in 1573, the Earl being then about 35 years of age. Sir. F. 

 Walsingham got another £1000 taken off, leaving in 1579 a remnant of about 

 £1813, for which certain manors continued to be distrained: but ultimately the 

 whole of the remainder was remitted, and a copy of the warrant of release is at 

 Longleat.] 



The Statement. 



" For Mr. Secretary Walsingham, who desired a Note of the somme already 

 paid in." [ Written on the margin of the original."] 



"The somme set upon me in the Star-chamber was fivetyne thousand pounds, 

 my land never being distreined therfore, tyll a litle before my coming to the 

 Tower. At what tyme her Majesty released ten thousand pounds of the fyve- 

 tyne thowsand. After, when I was at Tower, and made sute for the release of 

 my poore Tenants pitifully distreined for the remain demaunded, w ch was fyve 

 thowsand pownds, her Majesty sayd she would have one thowsand payd afore 

 she would releaze any part of the sayd five thowsand pounds. Whereupon was 

 payd in, one thowsand one hundred, fourscore and seven pounds (£1187). 

 Shortly after, her Majesty cut off" one thowsand pownds more. So as ther re- 

 maineth to be payd tow thowsand eight hundred and thirtyne pownds (£2813) 

 which my trust is her Ma'ty will eyther wholy cut off or at the lest, the greatest 

 part ; if it may please her Ma' ty to remember the whole somme was first set but 

 for terror j as also my humble retourne out of France upon the first cawll,* my 



♦Hertford had married Lady Katharine in 1560. In 1561 Queen Elizabeth, not being yet 

 aware of it, but seeing him about the court unsettled and strange in his mind, (as he might well be 

 with such a secret upon it,) ordered him to travel abroad. The marriage being found out soon after 

 his departure, Lady Katharine was sent to the Tower, and a message was sent to the Earl to return 

 immediately. He made no attempt to escape or shirk his share of the consequences, but instantly 

 recrossed ihe Channel, hastened to the Court and boldly avowed himself her husband. This is the 

 "return" to which he alludes. He then followed his wife to the tower. (See Miss E. Cooper's 

 Life of Lady Arabella Stuart, i., 197.) 



